You thought today's Google Play promotion was just about apps and games? You thought wrong. Google is going all-out, offering 25 music albums, 25 movies, 25 magazines, and 25 books you can all buy at deeply discounted prices right now (TV shows are not part of the promotion at this time).

The selection is actually pretty decent. For example, on Play Music, you can get classics like the Beach Boys Pet Sounds 40th Anniversary for just $4 (which I'm actually listening to right now). If that's not up your alley, there's bound to be something for everybody here, so get your credit cards ready.

It's unknown if there will be new music, movies, and books every day to go along with the apps that will be added over each of the next 5 days, but we'll probably find out soon enough.

Haha, those are the prices they have been running on those for some time and hardly ones that "changed the world."

Luis Augusto Fretes Cuevas

Dear Google, there's a world beyond the United States. If you want to compete with Apple in all categories, perhaps you should realize this, I'm forced to buy songs from Amazon and Apple because you don't get your act together.

Clearly not hard enough. I can buy music from iTunes, Spotify etc.why not Google music? Same with renting movies (although wouldn't do that anyway anymore since we are getting flickster for 9,95€/month :P)

Danny Lewis

Blame the content right holders. Knowing Google, they would make their digital media sales available anywhere an Internet connection exists, but they can't until they hammer out deals with everyone.

jusatin

Yeah.. but it's just weird there are so many services out already, that work here, but I guess Google just doesn't want to spend all that money :P

Why is Google so obsessed with the album "The Carter III" they are constantly featuring it during their sales promotions. And how is anything recorded by Kanye West considered an album that changed the world?

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**Lil' Wayne

qak

They have a wider customer base to appeal to than just the people who like classic rock, classic music,etc. There are people in the Play Store world that enjoy Kanye West, like me for example. And if you really, really, really want to get technical, you could make an argument that College Dropout or Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle changed the world. The definition of music changes according to who is listening to what. That's the beauty of it man, it's for everyone.

Eric Burton

I honestly was just throwing some examples out there... I enjoy music of all varieties and yes that includes rap. I'm just saying if you're going to run a promotion and call it 25 albums that changed the world they should actually promote albums that changed the world and not pick a bunch of random crap such as the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In terms of music that changed the world they should have included a little from every genre, yea Public Enemy and Snoop Dogg were pretty influential for the entire genre but there isn't a single metal album on there. Try telling me Tha Carter is more influential then Master of Puppets or Raining Blood...